A number of studies have suggested that women who take prescription birth control pills may be less healthy than those who don’t take them. A recent study published by the journal Health Affairs found that women who took prescription birth control pills had higher risk for developing certain conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, than women who didn’t take the pills.
The study’s author, Elizabeth Shaw of the University of Wisconsin, and her colleagues also found that women who took birth control pills gained an average of 4.6 pounds over six months. (The average woman gains an additional 4.5 pounds during the first year of taking birth control pills.) This is, of course, a small study, but this is the type of news that makes us think twice before deciding to buy something over the counter.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this, of course, and the FDA has yet to issue a statement about the study. We’re hoping we’ve convinced you to consider it.
The FDA has not yet released the study results, so the media is speculating on what the findings may be.
This study comes from a company called Endomondo. It seems like the company is trying to get a better handle on the number of women who have complained to them about the weight gain. They found that women who are taking these pills are almost twice as likely to gain weight at the beginning of their cycle (and the weight gain continues through the next few months) as women who aren’t.
To make matters worse, the number of women who complain of weight gain has been rising at a rate that is double the rate of the national average. And the reason it seems to be getting worse is because these pills are the same ones that are supposed to make you less likely to gain weight. They are also supposed to make you more fertile, but in the few studies that have been published, they don’t seem to do that at all.
The same study that found no effect on fertility also found that these pills made women lose weight more often than they did in the past, which may have been because they were not properly controlled. These pills usually last for 6 months and are supposed to be short term, but in the past they have been used for longer periods.
The only problem is that there are a lot of studies that have been published that have been retracted for being fraudulent. There is a lot of controversy around whether or not these pills really do cause weight gain. For example, a 2006 review of studies that found no effect on weight gain was retracted in 2007. Another of the studies that looked at weight gain was retracted in 2010 after showing signs that the study was fraudulent.
The fact is that most of these studies have found no significant weight gain with these devices, with a few exceptions. Some claim that the pills are associated with a slight weight gain (as long as there is no major surgery), while others claim that, well, there is no significant weight gain. One thing these studies don’t do though is include a control group and make sure their subjects are the same age, weight, and ethnicity as the study subjects.
Even though there are a few studies that have found a slight weight gain with these pills, the vast majority of studies found no weight gain. This study is the most rigorous, and in addition to a control group, the study had a number of subjects who had similar weight habits to those in the study, but there was no weight gain.